'Red October' novelist Tom Clancy dies at 66

By HILLEL ITALIE
Associated Press

NEW YORK - In 1985, a year after the Cold War thriller "The Hunt for Red October" came out, author Tom Clancy was invited to lunch at the Reagan White House, where he was questioned by Navy Secretary John Lehman.

Who, the secretary wanted to know, gave Clancy access to all that secret material?

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